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Word: nightclubbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considered criminal. Still, insists Los Angeles Police Officer Loren Zimmerman: "I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." In any case, the arming of America is now out of control. One startling sign: making a spot check one recent night, private guards at a Memphis nightclub found 32 patrons carrying guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...bribery is often not just figuratively but literally a matter of seduction. Says a top West German businessman there: "Lavish entertainments with women-that is very effective." In the booming industrial megalopolis of Sao Paulo, a favorite spot to nurse along a deal is La Licorne, a discreetly mirrored nightclub with a striptease show, where call girls cost $120 a night, and foreign businessmen pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made an interesting TV sit-com: the wacky misadventures of a loving and long-suffering nightclub owner and his zany wife, the star of the club's act. The twist, of course, was that husband and wife were both male, the wife a flamboyant transvestite. Still, Edouard Molinaro directed the film with a light touch, making Renato and Albin just another daffy couple who had a way of getting themselves into embarrassing situations. La Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...York, O'Hara continued his drinking and romances at the Stork Club, El Morocco, Larue, the Algonquin and Rudy Vallee's nightclub. At St. Martin and Mino's, on East Fifty-Second Street, he met Wolcott Gibbs, fiction editor of The New Yorker, who became a lifelong friend. In his novels and short stories, O'Hara renamed Pottsville Gibbesville in the editor's honor...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: A Rage To Live | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...clean fun.) A dark, Dantean cavern that waives the $3 to $4 admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread the word) and books some of the most popular country-rock acts in the area, McNasty's according to Owner Rich Thomas, 38 is "a workingman's nightclub." Or as Singer-Model Elizabeth Harrison, 21 puts it: "Disco turns me off because the people are really plastic. When you're here, you feel like everybody knows you. It's really dynamite. There's no competition. You want to dance, you do it. You want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: C & W Nightclubs: Riding High | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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